Pharmacists strongly criticised plans to strengthen checks at the counter for entitlement to free prescriptions in England.

A healthcare worker who was diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Glasgow from Sierra Leone arrives for specialist care at London's Royal Free Hospital.

The Ebola victim who triggered the current outbreak, a two-year-old boy from a small village in Guinea, may have been infected by playing in a hollow tree housing a colony of bats, say scientists.

Healthcare worker Pauline Cafferkey, who is battling Ebola at a London hospital, could be offered plasma from patients who have fought off the disease.